課程簡介（Course Description）
課程名稱（學分）🧔🏼👩🏽🏭：跨文化管理（1學分）
課程編號：
任課教師👴🏿：Prof. Dr. Anna Lupina-Wegener
University of Applied Sciences and Arts- State of Vaud (HEIG-VD), Switzerland
課程目標🩳：
總體目標：
· 提高對自身文化的認知度；
· 對其它民族文化提供見解
· 診斷不同民族文化；
跨文化管理
· 展示文化如何影響管理實踐；
· 了解文化如何影響溝通
· 為個人、團體、組織間的跨文化管理提供指導方針；
· 發展與來自東歐、西歐亞洲等不同文化背景公司合作的能力。
課程內容🤱🏼：
本課程幫助學生對不同文化間的管理問題進行深入了解🧑🏼🦲。首先🪕，我們將討論文化在管理實踐中的重要性🪂；其次，我們將介紹探索不同文化的方法及框架以診斷不同類型的文化🧠，如國家，公司，職能層面等；然後，我們將分析文化對溝通策略、組織結構及人力資源管理的影響💆🏼；最後，我們將評估跨文化管理的不同方法🈳，並探討經理們及公司在全球經濟中的作用📐。
教材與主要參考書😢：
課程相關閱讀材料的電子版將在課程開始1個月前通過電子郵箱發給學生：
· SCHNEIDER, Susan Carol. Managing across cultures. Pearson Education, 2003. Chapter 1
· HOUSE, R. J., HANGES, P. J., JAVIDAN, M., DORFMAN, P. W., & Gupta, V. (2004). Leadership, culture, and organizations: The GLOBE study of 62 societies. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications. Chapter 3.
· HALL, E. T. (1977). Beyond culture. Random House Digital, Inc..
· TING-TOOMEY, Stella, OETZEL, John. Managing Intercultural Conflict Effectively. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2001. Chapter 2.
· CHEN, Ming-Jer & MILLER, Danny (2010). West meets East: Toward an ambicultural approach to management. The Academy of Management Perspectives, 24, (4).
· LUPINA-WEGENER A. A. (2013). Human resource integration in subsidiary mergers and acquisitions: evidence from Poland. Journal of Organizational Change Management, 26(2).
· ORR, G., & XING, J. (2007). When Chinese companies go global: An interview with Lenovo’s Mary Ma. The McKinsey Quarterly.
考核方式及成績評定辦法：
1）個人反省報告🧑🏿🎨：50%
2）課堂參與：50%
先修課程👯：
建議選課對象：
備註🤷♀️：
課程開始兩周前，學生將被要求填寫以下調查問卷進行自我測評：
- 文化透視問卷
- 文化智商問卷
- 管理問卷
Course Name: Managing Across Cultures (1Credit)
Code:
Instructor(s): Prof. Dr. Anna Lupina-Wegener
University of Applied Sciences and Arts- State of Vaud (HEIG-VD), Switzerland
Objectives:
General:
· to increase awareness of one's own culture,
· to provide insight into other cultures,
· to diagnose culture,
Cross-cultural management
· to demonstrate how culture affects management practice,
· to understand how culture affects one’s own cultural communication
· to provide guidelines on managing cultural differences as individuals, teams and organizations,
· to develop collaboration competencies with companies based in/ or originating from East and Central Europe, Asia.
Contents:
This course is designed to develop a deeper understanding of the issues in managing across cultures. First, we will question the importance and relevance of culture in management practice. Second, we will explore methods for discovering culture and develop a framework to diagnose culture whether national, corporate, functional, etc. Third, we will examine the impact of culture on communication strategy, structure, and human resource management. Finally, we will evaluate different approaches to managing cultural differences and question the role of managers and companies in a global economy.
Text Books and Reference Books:
Course reader will be distributed to the students by email one month in advance:
· SCHNEIDER, Susan Carol. Managing across cultures. Pearson Education, 2003. Chapter 1
· HOUSE, R. J., HANGES, P. J., JAVIDAN, M., DORFMAN, P. W., & Gupta, V. (2004). Leadership, culture, and organizations: The GLOBE study of 62 societies. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications. Chapter 3.
· HALL, E. T. (1977). Beyond culture. Random House Digital, Inc..
· TING-TOOMEY, Stella, OETZEL, John. Managing Intercultural Conflict Effectively. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2001. Chapter 2.
· CHEN, Ming-Jer & MILLER, Danny (2010). West meets East: Toward an ambicultural approach to management. The Academy of Management Perspectives, 24, (4).
· LUPINA-WEGENER A. A. (2013). Human resource integration in subsidiary mergers and acquisitions: evidence from Poland. Journal of Organizational Change Management, 26(2).
· ORR, G., & XING, J. (2007). When Chinese companies go global: An interview with Lenovo’s Mary Ma. The McKinsey Quarterly.
Performance Evaluation and Score Assessment:
Final grade: 50% individual self-reflection report, 50% class participation
Participation is evaluated based on: attendance, active participation, homework, filled-out questionnaires and handing in group/ individual assignments.
Prerequisites:
N/A
Targeted Students:
Additional information:
Two weeks before the class you will be asked to fill out three self-assessments:
- Cultural perspectives questionnaire
- Cultural intelligence questionnaire
- Management questionnaire